I cased this card from Michelle Zindorf which she called "Sunrise" but my husband is a firefighter and it reminded me of a forest fire so I found this old firefighter stamp that I used dimensionals with and wrote courage.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

I love this set. You have so much to play with. I had stamped this and just kept moving it around on the table while I did other cards. It was part of my "Let's clean up all the little pieces of my stamp life" today. So this is what I came up with.

This is from the hostess set Rustic Rooster and it had been sitting around on this whisper white paper and so I found this polka dot paper that I thought looked good with the Baja Breeze paper and ribbon.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Well only one more day of Spring Break and then it's back to work. Signed up for Convention this weekend and got my plane reservations. Yippee!! Can't wait for August. Been busy doing everything but stamping. Did clean up the "Stamp Room" and cut out paper for a Tuesday stamp class. My youngest came home this weekend and we ran errands together today. I love when one or both of my girls are home. I really miss them when they aren't here.

Friday, April 17, 2009

I wanted to somehow highlight the trim on this and through several different trial and error methods I finally came up with this. After I brayered the Manhattan Flower textured impression with Pink Pirouette and ran it through the Big Shot I took the brayer, ran it through the Rose Red ink pad and lightly rolled it over the card so it would only pick up the white embossed area.

Monday, April 6, 2009

This is my take on Michelle Zindorf;s card today. The minute I saw it I had to try to make it especially because I have this stamp set "Blooming with Love. Shadowing, sponging and brayering are three techniques she uses all the time and I am learning slowly.

No this card isn't perfect but when I was trying to come up with my design for this months card swap this is kind of how it started but I made some changes for the actual swap. I will post it Thursday or maybe Friday depending on how late I get home from our downline meeting.

Friday, April 3, 2009

What a great day today turned out to be. My husband got us tickets to go see the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Nationals play at Harbor Park in Norfolk this afternoon. We thought the weather was going to be rainy but it turned into a very warm afternoon. I even got sunburned!!! The Orioles won but hometown boy Ryan Zimmerman who plays 3rd base for the Washington Nationals hit a home run! Way to go Ryan. My daughter who is a big Orioles fan drove down from Richmond for the day to go see them and her best friend Beanie went with us. So tomorrow will be dedicated to stamping. I've got some new stamps that I haven't play with from the new Stampin Up mini catalog. I hopefully will have a productive day and will post something by tomorrow evening.